Hackers stole personnel records of software developer Wind River

The global leader of embedded system software Wind River Systems discloses a data breach that resulted in the theft of customers’ personal information.

Wind River Systems, a global leader in delivering software for smart connected systems, discloses a data breach.

The company claims its technology is found in more than 2 billion products, it develops run-time software, middleware, development and simulation platforms.

The security breach took place on or around September 29, 2020, attackers accessed the personal information of its employees.

“Our outside experts recently determined that some of your personal information would have been available within one or more files that were downloaded from our network on or about September 29, 2020,” reads the data breach notification letter sent by the company to its employees.

The company is not aware of misuse of the information contained within the downloaded files, it also added that it has not found the stolen files online.

Personnel records accessed by the attackers could include birth dates, driver’s license numbers, national identification numbers, social insurance numbers, social security numbers, passport or visa numbers, health details, and/or financial account information.

At the time of this writing, Wind River hasn’t provided information on how attackers breached the company either the number of affected employees.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, Wind River Systems)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.